Shirt Tails

The Shirt Tails were a gang of Irish-Americans that operated in the Five Points of Manhattan during the mid-19th century.

History
The Shirt Tails' name comes from their habit of wearing their shirts outside of their pants as their insignia, and they concealed three to four weapons in their shirts; other gangs flaunted their weapons for intimidation. With over a few hundred gang members, they took part in gang battles alongside the Dead Rabbits and other Irish gangs, and in 1863 they took part in the final battle with the Natives during the New York draft riots.